# Offline?  But I'm HERE!!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offline-but-im-here/140024>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 2, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offline-but-im-here/140024 "2002-12-02T19:57:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offline-but-im-here/140024/1 "2002-12-02T19:57:23Z")

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So I’ve noticed that my little check mark down there (look to the bottom left, folks) says I’m ‘offline’ when I’m browsing.

Weird.

I noticed it this afternoon. I had just hit ‘submit’ on a post and it timed out on me. I opened a second window to see if my post went through and when I got there I saw that, even though I was clearly online reading the boards, the system thought I was offline.

What’s the deal with that?

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**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offline-but-im-here/140024/2 "2002-12-03T00:28:02Z")

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If you click on “user cp”, then “edit options” and look at **Invisible Mode?** , do you have a “yes” checked?

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**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offline-but-im-here/140024/3 "2002-12-03T07:03:09Z")

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I know I do, for now. So now you will never know if I’m actively posting at the time you’re reading the boards or not… mwahahahahahahahaha.

F\_X

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offline-but-im-here/140024/4 "2002-12-03T13:39:52Z")

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Be damned! I didn’t even know that was there!

Thanks guys!